The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1912, Page 15

“2 “American Opera “be won the $10,000 prize offered by ~ removed from the prevailing depression. and significance. The third act, te neces- . Parker’s -**Mona’’ Heard re af tile + Nea inc jingers and Alfred Herts, the Con-|x duttor, Warmly Ac- claimed by a Great Audience at the Metro- politan Opera. House. part was @ lovely figure as ona, and, dramatically, she made ine differentiation between the woman in love with Gwymm and the inspired Priestess who renounced love to lead her people in revolt against the Roman conquerors. A great deal of the muste was high for her—too high, one would have said; but she pronounced It ad- mirebly. Riccardo Martin, too, had @ GiMeult pat to sing, so unusual was the @oore. The other principal singers were Rita Forma, as Pnya, yontis ra BY SYEVESTER PAWLING. 66 Ms Prof. Horatio Park- er’s American opera in Ubretto of Brian Hooker, with which three acts, written to the shaw, as Gloom the Druld, son of Arth and Enya; Reiss, as Nial; 1. bert Murphy, as Caradoc, the Chief Ta Putnam Griswold, as the Roman Gov. ernor, and si! Ruyed: man. Alfred Herts fine spirit and a manifest understand- ing of what Mr. Parker intended to con. the Metropolitan Opera Company, in @ competition with twenty-ix am- bitious American composers, got its Great pudlic performance on any stage vey that might not have been grasped @t the Metropolitan Opera Hous ty nome aw last night. The audience was large) HOW THE SINGERS ENUNCIATED @mough to exhaust very nearly the| ° THEIR ENGLISH. @apacity of the house; the tributes Sea —e Rg ng Bf a Principals, while no! Ww | to the composer, to the Itbrettiat, to} ciosed, Albert Reiss, not to the manor each of the principal singers and to} born, eastiy won the honors, His every Alfred Hertz, the conductor, were | Word was intelligible and carried across he u the footlights. Loulse Homer, exc most marked; flowers and wreaths! in siow, deliberate passages, often were presented to them before the| could not be understood. The same curtain after each act, and, In turn, | BAY oem Wile in Hinehaw was they walked across the stage to eal-| always distinct, as was geen With- vos of applause. Why? Because|¢rspoon, and Lambert Murphy was Americap eudiences are always dis-| DANY se efective. Hatem a Gor posed to be kindly to new works, to ‘ew composers, to new singers, to & stunning figure as the Roman Gov- mow anything. That's the answer, ernor, had no difficulty in making him- aelf understood, and Basil Ruyedeel did ‘To come at once to the crux of the matter, Prof. Parker's opera is aca- honor In this respect to his heap yi A ‘The three scenes were models of stage setting and ali the mechanical details @emic, scholarly, musicianly, even pro- found, if you will; but it is stilted, wahuman apa lacking in all appeal to were worked out to the highest degree the heart. ‘From melody Mr. Parker ‘Would seem deliberately to eepa- fated himself. Often there begin- mings of phrases that make one hope for Joys to come, but they do not. Im- mediately he draws away from them. All ts gloom, the name of one of the principal chai ers. From the open- ing bar of the orchestra to the final mote, there is little or nothing but Gloom. Almost it would seem that the title of the opera should be “Gloom,” not “Mona.” Even in the orchestration, at which Mr. Parker shows his best paces, gloom atill presides, sombre, dark, threatening and noisy. MR. HOOKER’S LIBRETTO REA BETTER THANIT SINGS. Mr. Hooker’s own summary of the plot ‘wes printed in this column last Satur- of perfection under the direction of Loomis H. Taylor, the stage manager. ‘The rude hut of the firet act, the fine forest scene of the second, with the su- perb effects in fighting, and the night fires of the third, ending with the lovely morning vista, were highly creditable to him. The first words uttered by Albert _———_—_—_—_————— Are you hunting for eyeglass satisfaction —coupled with economy? +|/nounce English well. Y canhot “ander: stand.” . They raised a laugh among Observing persons, because so much of what’ had gone before might as well Nevertheless, all around, there was a vast improvement 7 the poe in the vernacular over he sad disclosures made’ last season, wien Mr. Chadwick's “The Pipe of Desire” was put o1 wan PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY IN LAST EVENING CONCERT. The Philharmonic Goctety, Josef Stransky conductor, gave ite last eub- scription concert of the season at Car- negie Halli last evening. The pro- gramme was @ severe one for all but musical enthusiasts. It comprised the Bach “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 8, Haydn's Symphony in D major, Mo- nart’ jupiter’ Symphony and Beet- hoven’s @fth symphony. The audience —not the largest of the season—was ap- preciative and generous in applause, It stayed until the end. The programme will be repeated this afternoon. THE MARQUARRE SEXTET AT COOPER UNION HALL. ‘The Maquarre Sextet, made up of members of the Boston 6ymphony Or- chestra, gave the fifth chamber ocon- cert of the People’s Symphony Club, Franz X. Arens, director, at Cooper Union iast night. Estelle Liebling. o- prano, was the soloist. The programme began with Bact yulte in B minor for flute and strings and ended with Gouvy's serenade, op. 82. Massenet, Ro- meau and Delibes were the other com- posers represented. ee Celebration by the Soctety. The annual &t. Patrick’ celebra- tion of the Gaelic Society will take place at the club rooms, No. 22 West Forty- mixth street, on Sundey next at § P. M. ‘The principal address will be delivered by Joseph I. Clarke. Well known artists will give a concert and there will be a real Irish dance. No admigston ‘will be charged, and every one in Ni York interested in Gaelic culture invited. BALLOONISTS OUT FOR RECORD “LOSE” AUTO. SAN ANTONIO, March ity which set o' follow the baMoon Buc! J. H. 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